Bihar: Liquor seized from school, headmaster and cook held

MOTIHARI: A police team recovered 169 cartons of India-made foreign liquor (IMFL) worth Rs 12 lakh from the government middle school at Kashi Pakadi village under Rajepur police station in East Champaran on Tuesday night.
Pakaridayal SDPO Sunil Kumar Singh, who led the raid, said the headmaster, husband of an assistant teacher and a cook of midday meal of this school were arrested in this connection.They were being quizzed about the liquor smuggler who had stored the prohibited item in the classrooms of the school.
The SDPO told this newspaper on Wednesday that he got a specific information at 9.30pm that someone had unloaded huge quantity of liquor from a pickup van and stored the bottles in the classrooms with the connivance of teachers and staff of the school.
He rushed to the spot with Rajepur SHO called school headmaster Sheo Shankar Prasad to unlock the rooms. The police seized 1200 litres of IMFL packed in 169 cartons there. Some locals informed the police that they had seen people carrying the cartons on their bikes.
The SDPO said the headmaster, the husband of a woman assistant teacher and the cook of this school were involved in this racket. The cook lives in front of the school.
The police were investigating whether liquor smugglers of Motipur in Muzaffarpur were involved in this case.